Events

From the California coast to the Kansas heartland to the streets of New York City, the photographs in Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U​.​S. Bicentennial offer an expansive and evocative portrait of America in the 1970s and early 1980s. Explore selected images from photography surveys that document people and places in the United States from the 19th century to the years before and after the U​.​S. Bicentennial in 1976.

Featured work from Distinguished Professor Jim Stone.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 18, 2026, 5:30-9:00 pm

“Reassembling Nuclear Family” considers how the nuclear industry impacts the notion and construction of family. I have attached the flyers and was hoping you could send this around to your department and anyone who might be interested in attending the opening night or other programming.

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 2026, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join NHCC Curator hazel batrezchavez for a dedicated series of one-on-one conversations in connection with our Community Gallery exhibition i thought i saw you yesterday. Each dialogue functions as an individual chapter, unpacking a single artist’s material practice, ancestral ties, and creative process. This dialogue with artist Amanda Dannáe Romero focuses on unpacking the familial archive and the act of tracing memory.

i thought i saw you yesterday is a group exhibition that explores memory and ancestral knowledge to create a dialogue between life cycles, food, land, place, and the body. Featuring artworks by artists Amanda Dannáe Romero, ashleigh steele chavez, Caroline Liu, claudia hermano, Esteban Ismael Durán, Jesus Miguel Avena, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Margarita Paz-Pedro, and Stephanie J. Woods.

We feature ABQ drag kings every week, plus a weekly “king raffle” to help get more kings into the scene. Running every Sunday until November 8, 2026.

Artist Talk: Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 4:30-5:30 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 16, 2026, 5:00-9:00 pm

Action research exhibition.

BFA Honors Thesis Exhibition by Sammie Chinigo.

Uncovering the unseen struggles of living with chronic illness.

The opening reception will be on October 10, 2026, from 5:00-7:00 pm. The Artist will lead a walkthrough talk featuring the show’s focal pieces, followed by a Q&A.

Snacks & beverages will be provided.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 4:00-6:00 pm

Opening: Saturday, October 17, 2026, 5:30-10:00 pm

Friday: Artist talk, October 23, 2026, 5:00-9:00 pm

Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Her multifaceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.

In 2023, Ms. Wahi was honored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exemplary social impact work in the Arts, both at Project for Empty Space and in her other roles as both a museum curator and independent practitioner.

In 2020, PES, Ms. Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, while simultaneously Co-Directing Project for Empty Space. While at the museum she curated several renowned exhibitions, including Born In Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It’s Good To You, which were oriented around the thesis that visibility is the primary tenet of Social Justice.

Earlier in 2020, Ms. Wahi co-curated the ongoing traveling exhibition ABORTION IS NORMAL with a cohort of intergenerational cultural practitioners including Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Marilyn Minter, Laurie Simmons, Gina Nanni, and Sandy Tait. The exhibition will be revived and travel across the United States in late 2023-2024 ahead of the presidential election, as a way to engage voters across the country.

In 2019, Ms. Wahi gave her first TED Talk on intersectionality and visibility, entitled All The Women In Me Are Tired.

A lover of learning and sharing, Ms. Wahi has taught at a number of art institutions, including Yale University, and the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts department. She is currently in the Faculty of Brooklyn College in New York City. In addition to her faculty roles at Academic institutions, Ms. Wahi also serves as both a faculty member at ART FORWARD and a Board member at CCNY at Baxter Street.

Ms. Wahi received her own Art History education from New York University, where she has an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Jasmine Wahi lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her chihuahua mutt, Momo. You can follow her shenanigans and micro-essays on Instagram at @browngirlcurator.

Event Presented by:

• UNM Department of Art
• UNM Art Museum
• UNM Women’s Resource Center
• Tamarind Institute